New Madrid, Mo area

ssgshelton · Dec 19, 2012

I got back my John Deere two cylinder serial number search back for my 1957 JD 720 today. It is a wide front gas row crop that says it was built March 26,1957 and was shipped to the New Orleans branch house with a destination of New Madrid, MO. My tractor has what appears to be original rear 15.5x38 rice tires on it. Just what I can see of that area on google maps it is next to the Mississippi river. Is that a rice growing area? For those familiar, what types of crops are grown in that area? I bought it from a guy just south of Nashville, Tn who said he thought it came from Mississipi area but instead of the state he could have meant the river area.
Thanks

thurlow · Dec 19, 2012

Far's as know, no rice in SE MO. Probably cotton and soybeans and maybe some corn. Lots of farmers who never even saw rice growing ran rice and cane tires way back when; I know we did.

A GURU · Dec 19, 2012

The bootheel area of S.E. Missouri has some rice growing and Clay County Arkansas just to the west is like the biggest rice growing county in that state, but like thurlow said, lots of folks used rice and cane in those areas.

wilamayb · Dec 19, 2012

Yes, there most certianly is rice grown in SE MO. There is rice as far north as Bloomfield, MO.

Tom OConnor · Dec 19, 2012

We have used Rice and Cane tires in Michigan for years and must be 700 miles from the nearest rice field.

jdeere70 · Dec 20, 2012

Cotton,Wheat,Soybeans,Sorghum,Corn and some rice. Great part of the world to be in.

Fred from MO · Dec 20, 2012

Yes rice and cotton! Plus lots of good duck hunting!

mb58 · Dec 20, 2012

R & C tires have always been the norm here in Louisiana. Those low-cleet tires won"t move you out of your tracks down here if you spit on the ground in front of it. Just to much wet weather here.

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